Justin Spitzer
Justin Spitzer is an American television and film writer, producer, and creator whose credits include Scrubs and Courting Alex. He worked as a writing assistant on Queer as Folk and Grounded for Life prior to serving as a writer on The Office for seven years. He is the creator of, and an executive producer on, the NBC sitcom Superstore, having previously served as the series' showrunner for its first three seasons.
Personal life
On November 24, 2007 he married producer and writer Jenna Bans. They have two children Lucy and Phoebe.Career
Spitzer was an assistant on Grounded for Life, and on fourteen episodes of Queer as Folk. In 2013 he wrote a pilot based on The Money Pit that was put into development by NBC but ultimately never aired. He is the creator, showrunner and executive producer for the NBC sitcom Superstore.On January 23, 2020, Spitzer wrote a script for the pilot episode of a new NBC comedy American Auto for Kapital Entertainment and Universal Television.
Credits
Producing
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2013 | Holding Patterns | executive producer |
Writing
| Show | Episode Title | Season | Air Date | Notes |
| Scrubs | "My Butterfly" | 3 | March 16, 2004 | |
| Committed | "The Snap Out of it Episode" | 1 | February 1, 2005 | |
| Courting Alex | "Birthday" | 1 | March 6, 2006 | |
| The Office | "Back from Vacation" | 3 | January 4, 2007 | |
| The Office | "Product Recall" | 3 | April 26, 2007 | co-written with Brent Forrester |
| The Office | "Did I Stutter?" | 4 | May 1, 2008 | co-written with Brent Forrester |
| The Office | "Moroccan Christmas" | 5 | December 11, 2008 | |
| The Office | "Michael Scott Paper Company" | 5 | April 9, 2009 | |
| The Office | "Shareholder Meeting" | 6 | November 19, 2009 | |
| The Office | "Body Language" | 6 | April 29, 2010 | |
| The Office | "Costume Contest" | 7 | October 28, 2010 | |
| The Office | "Dwight K. Schrute, Manager" | 7 | May 12, 2011 | |
| The Office | "Garden Party" | 8 | October 13, 2011 | |
| The Office | "Angry Andy" | 8 | April 19, 2012 | |
| The Money Pit | "Pilot" | 1 | unaired | |
| Mulaney | "Patriot Acts" | 1 | November 23, 2014 | |
| Superstore | "Pilot" | 1 | November 30, 2015 | |
| Superstore | "Shots and Salsa" | 1 | November 30, 2015 | |
| Superstore | "Tornado" | 2 | May 4, 2017 | |
| Superstore | "Grand Re-Opening" | 3 | September 28, 2017 | |
| Superstore | "Town Hall" | 3 | May 3, 2018 | Story credit |
| Superstore | "Employee Appreciation Day" | 4 | May 16, 2019 |